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In mid-2010, a jobless DaRell Moore was selling his own blood plasma just to survive when a friend told him that Emerge Staffing, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit, was looking for workers. He walked into the agency, which helps place hard-to-employ adults in temporary and temp-to-perm jobs, the next morning. Alternative staffing jobs modelAlternative staffing seeks to meet the needs of both...
Tough economic times these days have made work for many local nonprofits difficult. A state shutdown for nearly a month this summer didn’t make things any easier either, recalls Mike Wynne (Inset above), the CEO of EMERGE (Emerge Community Development), an employment and development agency in North Minneapolis. “The only thing worse than the state shutdown was the budget they...
A group of historic preservation advocates huddled in the former North Branch Library, a bare, unheated old red brick castle on Emerson Avenue in North Minneapolis earlier this week, as the first real taste of winter came to the Twin Cities. Cradling cardboard cups of hot coffee more for warmth than caffeine, the gathering included a few reporters perched on...
She would have been proud of the effort to rescue the North Side's very own castle on Emerson Avenue. Gratia Countryman did not build the turreted red-brick building that housed the city's first neighborhood library; it opened in 1894, 10 years before she took charge of the Minneapolis Public Library. But Countryman nurtured the North Branch, known affectionately as "the...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Minneapolis’ North Branch Library, the first open-shelf library in the U.S., is about to be transformed into a state-of-the-art jobs center. A $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration is helping make the historic library, which opened in 1893, a destination for much-needed computer access and job training in the community. For more than 30...
